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Why Play Guitar?

Guitar Pro allows you to edit your music scores and tablature for guitar, bass, and ukulele, as well as create backing tracks for drums or piano. Guitarists who haven’t taken the time to adequately learn their music, however, will have a difficult time hearing the individual chords and notes of any song. Adolph Rickenbacker invented the first modern amplifiable guitar; it was a semi-hollow bodied guitar with sound holes.

And you can also buy lighter gauge strings for an acoustic guitar and sacrifice volume and tone for playability. Phase 1 of our teaching method serves to teach you these absolute basics, such as tuning, posture, technique, reading tablature and playing elementary chords.

The instrument is generally acoustic and the harp strings are adjusted to lower notes than the guitar strings, for an added bass range. In that case you must listen very carefully to recordings of music with some guitar strumming showing up. You will certainly learn a lot, too, watching videos about guitar strumming.

You’ll find that in a lot of music, the role of the rhythm guitar is primarily to play chords in a rhythmic pattern so, for this reason, learning as many chords as possible, and being able to change between them fluently is an essential part of learning how to play electric guitar.

Most modern music of today features the Electric Guitar and most Rhythm sections of Country and Gospel music depend heavily on the Acoustic Guitar. The use of electric guitar effects has given the electric guitar a wide range of sounds. A guitar amp is an amplifier optimized for reproducing electric guitar signals.